Maternal Deaths Keep Increasing in Nigeria. Healthcare Services Still Remain Underfunded.
Nigeria has the second-highest number of global maternal deaths. Due to underfunding and other issues, interventions remain unsuccessful.
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Ellie Rose Mattoon
Jul 2613 min
This Barbie Is... A Dolled-Up Wax Cadaver?
Perhaps I spoke too soon when I said the Anatomical Venus filled me with pride. What if we haven’t come as far as I thought we had?
Sneha Khedkar
Dec 7, 20235 min
“If Your Cycle is Normal, Why Play with It?”
“In our community, if you have periods, you’re not supposed to come and participate.”
Manasvi Verma
Aug 25, 20237 min
A Journey Through My Microbiome: An Immigrant’s Perspective on a Changing Gut
As I moved across the globe, my microbiome changed in ways that I could not control.
Ebony Gunwhy
Feb 3, 20228 min
When Hubris Leads to Scientific Fraud
Not being able to take criticism well can damage the integrity of research – particularly if it motivates scientific misconduct.
Cydney Wong
Nov 8, 20216 min
Perspective: What I Learned (And Did Not Learn) From Genetic Ancestry Tests
Nothing could give me a satisfying, one-word answer to the “what are you” question.
Madeline Canmann
Sep 5, 202112 min
I Designed My Own Curriculum for College. Here’s How My Experience Can Help Fight Climate Change.
I feel like I slipped out the back door one night and never returned home.
Madeehah Reza
Aug 24, 20217 min
In the Eye of the Storm
As the months wore on, I began to dread going to work but I didn’t know how to take a break.
I didn’t know that quitting was an option.
Toluwalogo Niji-Olawepo
Jul 19, 20217 min
Is Nigeria On a Sugar Rush?
At one point, it seemed as though almost every person above the age of forty was either a diabetic or a prediabetic.
Sheeva Azma
Jul 4, 20219 min
Tennis for More Than Two
Who gets to benefit from the modest improvements and radical reimaginations of gaming that so many now rely on for community and sanity?
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